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INSIDE RUSSIA
Migrants, corruption, cybercrime: what Putin told the Interior Ministry
The updated migration policy concept should be adopted this year, “as soon as possible,” the Russian leader stated
MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. A new version of the Russian migration policy concept should be adopted this year, President Vladimir Putin said at an Interior Ministry board meeting.
He also urged not to slow down the pace in the fight against corruption and to pay extra attention to the detection rate of cybercrimes, which has decreased to 23%.
TASS has compiled the key statements of the head of state.
On combating extremism and crime
Law enforcement officers must respond firmly and promptly to manifestations of extremism and religious radicalism in Russia: “I expect from you the toughest and most prompt reaction to such crimes.”
The youth should be prevented from being drawn into criminal activities: “We must continue to do everything to protect young people from criminal threats and from being drawn into illegal activities, including drug trafficking and cybercrime.”
The detection rates of some crimes are increasing: “The detection rate of such types of crimes as murders, robberies, and burglaries is improving. Street crime has also decreased.”
Repeat crimes are also decreasing: “In general, I would like to note that the so-called recidivism, when those who have been punished commit a crime again, is practically decreasing.”
On the fight against corruption
We must not slow down in fighting against corruption: “Special attention should be paid to curbing attempts to steal budget funds while implementing state defense orders and national projects, as well as our other programs.”
About migration policy and compatriots
Russia should strengthen efforts to combat illegal migration, “including administrative attention, and on the part of the government.”
Russia should eliminate the channels of illegal migration and actively use migration control tools: “All instructions in this regard have already been given.”
Russia should study “the possibility of abandoning the paper migration card and switching to electronic authorization of immigrants from abroad.”
The updated migration policy concept should be adopted this year, “as soon as possible.”
Russia should improve the mechanisms for the return of compatriots and apply them to foreigners who want to move to the country.
“Of course, we should develop the existing mechanisms to support the return of our compatriots to their homeland,” the head of state said, “as well as those foreigners who share our traditional values, wish to live and work in our country, and even more so if they have the appropriate qualifications and education and are needed by our economy.”
“Preservation of cultural identity” and “security of society and people” are priorities of the Russian migration policy.
About cybercrimes
The detection rate of cybercrimes has decreased to 23%, and their number is growing: “I ask you to pay extra attention to the detection of crimes committed using information technology. Moreover, their number increased last year, and the damage exceeded 200 billion rubles. Moreover, a quarter of the deceived, wronged people are pensioners.”
On combating the spread of drugs
Agencies should “improve mechanisms to combat aggressive advertising and drug sales platforms in the digital sphere.”
On Interior Ministry’s salaries
There is a growing personnel problem in the Interior Ministry system, which is systemic in nature and requires solutions in all areas: “I mean strengthening social guarantees and increasing the salaries of employees. It should certainly be, as they say in such cases, competitive.”
On documentation of residents of Donbass and Novorossiya
The process of issuing passports to the residents of Donbass and Novorossiya has been completed “almost in full.”
On car accidents
The number of people killed in road accidents in Russia has more than halved in 20 years, but this is not enough yet: “This is why additional solutions must be considered for technical modernization of the roads, traffic management, and accident prevention.”
About the victory anniversary
Law enforcement agencies should pay “special attention” to anti-terrorist security during celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Russian police seize 180,000 rounds of ammunition in regions bordering Ukraine
The number of police squads operating outdoors or in public areas has been increased in the Kursk Region
MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Police officers have seized 180,000 rounds of ammunition in the Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod regions, Russian Minister of Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting of the Board of the Russian Interior Ministry.
“Amid the continuing special military operation, the ministry took measures ensuring special legal regimes. In particular, inspections have been strengthened in the Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod regions. Approximately 3 million citizens and nearly 2.5 million vehicles have been checked. More than 180,000 rounds of ammunition, grenades, and other devices have been seized,” he said.
The number of police squads operating outdoors or in public areas has been increased in the Kursk Region. Jointly with the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the National Guard (Rosgvardiya), 36 such mobile groups are active in borderline areas. Transport and communication facilities have been covered from attacks. Buses with relocated people are provided with escort.
“Measures on thwarting theft of property left by civilians in their homes are being taken. We promptly help restore lost documents,” the minister added.
To replenish the ranks of police officers in the new regions, recruitment is ongoing and an access course is used. “It has been passed by 5,000 people in the period under report, 2,500 more via training programs,” the minister clarified. A branch of the Oryol Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia was established there to prepare policemen for the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. An academy has been restored in the city of Mariupol.
Russian authorities to stimulate rice planting
Measures are being implemented to support operations and investments, including subsidized loans, the official stated
MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Russian authorities are exploring measures to stimulate rice planting, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.
“We are working on measures to stimulate rice production on account of opening of high-margin export markets,” Novak said.
The main risk in agriculture is the increase of the prime cost amid high returns, the official said. Measures are being implemented in this regard to support operations and investments, including subsidized loans, Novak added.
Putin vows to carry on with dual citizenship program with Abkhazia
Badra Gunba drew the attention of the Russian president to the fact that there were people remaining in the republic, who did not have time to resort to the opportunity of obtaining the dual citizenship
MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he would give instructions to finalize the issues of dual Russian-Abkhaz citizenship.
This issue was raised at a meeting with newly elected President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, who drew the attention of the Russian president to the fact that there were people remaining in the republic, who did not have time to resort to the advantageous opportunity of obtaining the dual citizenship.
“Yes, we will carry on with it [the program]. It is actually ready and we will continue with its implementation,” Putin said. “I will send the appropriate instructions to my colleagues, and together with you they will finalize the issues that may still require close attention, but we will continue with this work.”
Gunba is paying a visit to Russia and met for talks with President Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday.
Earlier in the week, Abkhazia’s Central Election Commission announced the final results of the presidential election, where Badra Gunba received 54.73% of the vote while his rival, Adgur Ardzinba, garnered 41.54%.
Abkhazia held an early presidential election on February 15. Two out of five presidential candidates, namely Vice President Badra Gunba and oppositionist Adgur Ardzinba, progressed to the second round of the election, which was held on March 1.
Russia jails British mercenary for 19 years
The UK citizen has been accused of crimes against civilians in Russia’s Kursk Region, officials have said
A Russian court has sentenced a British mercenary to 19 years in prison for fighting for Ukraine and committing a “terrorist act” in Kursk Region.
In a statement on Wednesday, Russia’s Investigative Committee said that British citizen James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, “took direct part in the armed conflict on the territory of the Russian Federation for material compensation.”
Anderson invaded Russia’s territory together with Ukrainian forces last November and “committed crimes against the civilian population” in Kursk Region, the committee said. Officials have not provided any further details on the specifics of the charges.
Anderson is expected to serve his first five years in prison and the remainder in a maximum-security penal colony.
He previously claimed that Ukrainian commanders had forced him to enter Russia, adding that they had taken away his identification papers and cell phone. He also stated that he had served in the UK military as a signals operator between 2019 and 2023 before deciding to join Kiev’s foreign legion. According to Anderson, once he arrived in the country, he was mainly involved in training local military personnel.
The UK Foreign Office has vowed to provide all the necessary support to Anderson but has not commented on the specifics of the charges or the trial proceedings.
Russian authorities have consistently prosecuted foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine, warning that any troops supporting Kiev would be considered “legitimate targets.”
In January, a Russian court sentenced retired US Army Ranger Patrick Creed to 13 years in prison for serving with Ukraine’s armed forces between 2022 and 2023.
OUTSIDE RUSSIA
Russian diplomat says Iran compliant with NPT, IAEA safeguards agreement
Russian envoy said he was puzzled by the IAEA director-general’s concern that Iran is the only non-nuclear-armed state that enriches uranium up to 60%
BERLIN, March 5. /TASS/. Iran is in compliance with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Russia’s envoy to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.
He made the statement after reading a report by IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi titled the NPT Safeguards Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Iran is in compliance with its obligations under the NPT and the safeguards agreement. The report also reflects the fact that Iran has allowed the Secretariat to adapt approaches to the implementation of safeguards due to the increased rate of producing uranium enriched up to 60%,” the diplomat said, according to the Telegram channel of Russia’s Permanent Mission to International Organizations in Vienna.
However, the Russian envoy said he was puzzled by the IAEA director-general’s concern that Iran is the only non-nuclear-armed state that enriches uranium up to 60%.
“This is a thesis that we usually hear in the speeches of Western delegations. The agency’s task is not to make political judgments when informing the Board of Governors, but to verify, within the limits of its technical mandate, that nuclear material is not diverted to prohibited purposes,” Ulyanov said.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was signed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany with Iran in 2015 to address the crisis over its nuclear research. In 2018, then US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal and reinstated all anti-Iran sanctions that had been lifted under the JCPOA. In response, the Iranian parliament in 2020 passed a bill “On Strategic Actions to Lift Sanctions and Protect the Interests of the Iranian People” and, in compliance with the legislation, called off some of its obligations under the nuclear deal, including IAEA inspections beyond the scope of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Safeguards Agreement between the IAEA and the Islamic republic, also banning stringent monitoring measures.
Euro-Atlanticists’ Expansion Into Central Asia Aims to Tackle Criticism of West’s Dominance – Moscow
Central Asia is the topic of a Valdai Discussion Club conference attended by more than 50 experts and political figures from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
“Euro-Atlanticists already mentally linked Central Asia to Western Europe via the South Caucasus in order to reduce these regions’ interest in cooperation with Russia,” Alexander Sternik, director of the Third Department of the CIS Countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told a Valdai Discussion Club conference.
The West is interested in gaining access to energy resources and transit potential of Central Asian states, as well as their proximity to Afghanistan, Iran, and China, Sternik stressed.
He was echoed by Fyodor Lukyanov, director of research at the Valdai Discussion Club, who noted that external players, who are not part of Central Asia, do their best to tear out individual parts of the region and use them in their own interests.
Central Asia has become a model and center of a multipolar world, to which other countries – the main centers of the new world – are adjacent. These are Russia, China, India, Iran, and Turkiye, Lukyanov pointed out.
More than 50 experts and political figures from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan took part in the Valdai Club conference titled “Russia and Central Asia: Cooperation in a Multipolar World.”
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE
No talks on Ukraine taking place as yet
“There is a desire, voiced by the White House, to stop what was started before them, according to their own admissions, by the US administration under Joe Biden,” Maria Zakharova said
MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. No talks to settle the conflict in Ukraine are currently taking place, and one of the reasons is that Vladimir Zelensky banned himself from engaging in such discussions with Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
She made a statement at a lecture that was part of a project called the Big City Forum.
“There are no talks on the situation in Ukraine as yet. There is a desire, voiced by the White House, to stop what was started before them, according to their own admissions, by the US administration under [Joe] Biden,” the diplomat said.
She also said that Zelensky, under pressure from London and Washington, had imposed a legal ban on himself in 2022 to hold negotiations with Moscow.
She commented on Trump’s position on Ukraine and prospects for resolving the conflict by saying, “At last we have heard [from the US leadership] what we have been talking about ourselves – an acknowledgement that without Biden and his entourage the situation would have developed in a completely different way.”
“We hear these statements,” she went on to say. “We see some concrete actions, and some other actions have not yet materialized and are only being talked about as intentions. We see that they have already appointed a person who will deal with the issue of Ukraine. We have taken note of that, but there are no concrete negotiations on this issue as yet.”.
Russian troops leveling out front near Dnepropetrovsk region after liberating Privolnoye
All the Ukrainian army’s positions remaining in that area are under dense gunfire by Russian troops, the defense source said
All the Ukrainian army’s positions remaining in that area are under dense gunfire by Russian troops, the defense source said
DONETSK, March 5. /TASS/. The liberation of the settlement of Privolnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) allows Russian troops to level out the frontline in the south Donetsk area close to the Dnepropetrovsk region, a source in Russian defense circles told TASS on Wednesday.
“The liberation of Privolnoye straightens the front near Velikaya Novosyolka towards the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region,” the defense source said.
All the Ukrainian army’s positions remaining in that area are under dense gunfire by Russian troops, he added.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported earlier on March 5 that Russia’s Battlegroup East had liberated the settlement of Privolnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
INSIGHTS
Zelensky’s New ‘Ceasefire’ Offer Shows He’s Back to His Old Jokes
Zelensky’s latest so-called ‘peace offer,’ which the ex-comedian claims could help end the conflict, has zero chance to succeed as it contains NO NEW proposals, a source in military and diplomatic circles has said.
A ‘Truce at Sea’
Such a truce was actually implemented during the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) during 2022-2023.
Whereas Russia honored all of its BSGI commitments, the other parties to the agreement did not fulfil their part of the deal.
That ‘truce’ was in fact used by the West to ship weapons into Ukraine on vessels that were ostensibly meant to ferry Ukrainian grain to global markets.
In November last year, a proposal similar to the BSGI was made by Ukraine to Russia via Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The offer was reviewed by Russia’s Ministry of Defense and Foreign Ministry, but ultimately rejected due to being one-sided, with Moscow expected to make concessions but receive nothing in return.
No Attacks on Energy Infrastructure
Again, a similar offer was made to Russia before via Turkiye, former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed last year.
Russia studied that offer carefully. President Vladimir Putin even postponed plans to launch a campaign of massed precision strikes against energy facilities that supplied power to Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, both because of such offers and due to humanitarian concerns.
Ukraine, however, proceeded to launch drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, achieving some of their goals. However, superior Russian strikes have now rendered inoperable about 70 percent of the energy infrastructure that provides power to the Ukrainian military and to Kiev’s arms industry.
Thus, it seems highly likely that Volodymyr Zelensky simply wants to use his old tricks to gain an advantage over Russia, and is not really interested in peace.
55 Years of Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation
On March 5, 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (or NPT for short) entered into force.
The treaty is meant to prevent the spread of nuclear armaments and nuclear weapon tech around the globe and to promote the goal of nuclear disarmament. So far, 191 of the world’s states have become parties to the NPT.
Want to know which countries (including those that possess nuclear weapons) still haven’t joined this treaty and what state actually withdrew from the NPT? Have a look!
